Sir Hans Sloane and His Printed Ephemera Collections

March 19, 2004, Houghton Library, Harvard University

Giles Mandelbrote, Curator of British Collections 1501-1800 at the British Library, spoke about the printed ephemera collections of Sir Hans Sloane. Mr. Mandelbrote is a frequent contributor to scholarship about the history of the book trade and of book ownership, particularly in the seventeenth century. He is also one of the editors of the Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland.